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area suffused with brown from apex to vein 2 ; a terminal series 

 of dark points ; cilia white mixed with brown ; the underside with 

 the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, the veins of 

 terminal area streaked with brown, a blackish discoidal spot, 

 curved waved postmedial line with blackish spot at costa and 

 slight dark streaks on the veins and terminal series of small lunules. 



Hab. Canada ; U.S.A., Massachusetts, New York, Florida (DouMe- 

 <f«>/), 1 (5 1 , Missouri, St. Louig, Texas, 2 $, West to the Rocky 

 Mts. ; Mkxico, Jalapa (Hoege), 1 J type doletis, Godman-Salvin 

 Coll. Exp. 40-46 millim. 



Larva. Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat, Mus. xxi. p. 128, pi. v. ff. 1, 2. 



Head brown, mottled with darker on the face. Body robust, 

 brown, with red-brown dorsal and lateral stripes ; hairs of 

 tubercle ii. single, long, black, those of joints 3-7 slightly spatulate. 

 Food-plant: Oak. 



3667. Acronycta hamamelis. (Plate CXXV. fig. 4.) 



Acronycta hamamelis, Guen. IS'oet. i. p. 52 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Koct, N. 

 Am. p. 44. 



Head and thorax grey largely mixed with brown and black ; 

 palpi whitish at base and with black band on 2nd joint ; Irons 

 with black bar ; tegulse with blackish line near base ; tibise streaked 

 with black, the tarsi banded with black; abdomen grey-brown 

 thicklv irrorated with fuscous and with dorsal series of slight dark 

 tufts of hair, the basal crest with some white. Fore wing grey- 

 white almost wholly suffused with fuscous brown and thickly 

 irrorated with black ; subbasal line represented by double black 

 striae from costa ; antemedial line double, minutely waved, oblique ; 

 orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former with brown 

 centre and whitish annulus, round, the latter with its centre 

 suffused with brown and slight pale annulus ; an indistinct curved 

 medial line ; postmedial line double, strongly bent outwards below 

 costa, then minutely waved, incurved below vein 3 to lower edge 

 of reniform, some pale points beyond it on costa ; an indistinct 

 dentate whitish subterminal line angled inwards in submedian fold ; 

 a terminal series of small triangular black spots denned on inner 

 side by slight whitish lunules ; cilia whitish with fine waved 

 blackish line near base and terminal series of points. Hind wing- 

 brown with traces of discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line ; 

 cilia whitish with brown line through them ; the underside white 

 irrorated with brown, a slight dark streak in middle of cell of male, 

 a black discoidal lunule, curved waved postmedial line, and terminal 

 series of small black lunules. 



Hah. U.S.A. (Douhledai/), 1 6, co-type, Pennsylvania, 1 £, 

 Grote Coll., Georgia, Virginia. Exp. 42 millim. 



Larva. Guen. Noct. i. p. 52. 



Dorsal area yellowish grey, the ventral area ferruginous red, the 



